OK - So I just have to completely brag and toot my own horn and say how awesome I just was because of what I just did.
After 5 rounds of IVF and 100's of shots over the years ( that I could never administer myself ) I just gave myself an intramuscular shot in the thigh with a 1.5 inch 20 gauge needle that burned like a son of a biotch and bled afterwards...but I DID IT!!!!!
How did this happen? Well if you read my last posting I was to start the infamous "bitch juice" last Monday to be repeated weekly. Chuck was able to give me the first shot right before he left town for a couple weeks. Then this afternoon I was supposed to get my mother-in-law to give me the second shot before she left town, after visiting for a few days..."supposed to". So she pulled out of the driveway - I layed down with Evan for naptime and shot out of bed about an hour later realizing that I now have to figure out how to get this gigantic needle into my body before today is over.
Well, to go off on a little side note I was acually put on insulin last week to control the gestational diabetes. Apparently, unless I'm on the Atkins diet my sugars are going to be too high for the doctors' comfort level. They started me out on a tiny amount once a day. If this doesn't work after a week I will be adding another kind and doing it several times a day. I decided that if I was going to be taking insulin and progesterone for the remainder of this pregnancy it's time for this chic to toughen up and learn how to give myself shots. From the first night of insulin I did it myself. It's a small needle delivered subcutaneously ( fat layer) and a good way to warm up for the real deal!!!
I have had such a fear of doing this ...I just can't tell you. I can't even watch the phlebotomist draw my blood ( which is constant during IVF) ...I always have to look away.
Back to this afternoon:
So I get on YouTube, resourceful as I am, and watch a couple of chics give themselves intramuscular shots. If they can do it I can do it...right? I look up the sites on your body where you can give an IM shot and pick the top of my thigh. I ice it with frozen blueberries for 5 minutes and together with the girl on YouTube I go through the rest of the steps, promising myself that when she jabs I will jab. They say if you hesitate even once you can psych yourself out and maybe never do it.
We did it TOGETHER !!! HAHAHA
I wonder if this girl knows how useful her video is to wimpy shot givers such as myself?
So I'm feeling pretty cool right now that I can give myself shots and not cry or pass out or anything of that nature.
OH - and for the record I think taking Progesterone when you're pregnant may actually enhance your moods rather than bringing out your inner evil like it has during previous IVF rounds.
I've actually felt lighter and in a not so preggers mood since starting the progesterone.
In any case hopefully it will do it's job and keep me from delivering early.
Still hanging in there at 27 weeks - Woo-Hoo!!!
Go Baby Girl Go !!!
